Topics covered: Chapter 13, MIshna 8, Chapter 14, Mishna 1 What if a yavam and yevama marry, but never consummate the union? Do they require a bill of divorce, or chaltizah, or both? What if the yevama has a co-wife? …

Topics covered: Chapter 13, MIshna 6, 7, 8 These cases of incomplete marriage between a husband and a minor or a deafmute – whether because partial or uncertain – create additional complexities when the husband dies childless and leaves a …

Topics covered: Chapter 13, MIshna 5, 6 How does the law of marriage by rabbinic law (in the case of a marriage to a minor or a deafmute) as opposed to by Torah law (in the case of a legally …

Topics covered: Chapter 13, MIshna 3, 4, 5 A minor girl can refuse the man to whom her family married her. What if he divorces her? Can she marry another man, refuse him and return to the first husband?   …

Topics covered: Chapter 13, MIshna 1, 2 If a minor girl is betrothed or married off by her mother or brother, she may refuse her husband and annul the marriage. What are the particulars of this law, and how does …

Topics covered: Chapter 12, Mishna 3, 4 If a yavam won’t perform chalitzah with a widow who does not wish to marry hum, we compel or even trick him to so, in order to free her. What is the order …

Topics covered: Chapter 12, Mishna 3 Analysis of the impact of incomplete chalitzah on the participants. And what if the yavam or the yevama were minors? A colorful incident illustrates Rabbi Yosei’s opinion on this question, as well as the …

Topics covered: Chapter 12, Mishna 2, 3 Can chalitzah be performed at night? Can chalitzah be performed on the left foot? What if the recitation of the relevant Torah verse was omitted? What if the act of spitting on the …

Topics covered: Chapter 12, Mishna 1 For the purposes of the chalitzah ceremony, when a shoe must be removed from on the yavam’s foot by the yevama, what constitutes a shoe? A foot? Removal? Can an amputee perform chalitzah?    …